Baby Sleep Issues
Parents discuss challenges with infants and toddlers not sleeping through the night, sharing advice on sleep training, co-sleeping, cry-it-out methods, and coping with sleep deprivation.
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Reduce sleep time and work in the nigth: is the uniq solution i found. Enjoy your kid! ;-)
For the love of god, sleep train your baby. There are coaches online if you need help.
Similar story here with soon to be 4yo and a new baby, bed time has been bleeding into later times and sometimes it's easier to sleep together to calm them down. It's a phase and I'm not too stressed about it, but it totally limits me time.
Hey man! Sending my beat wishes and virtual strength towards you! My kid is 13 months old now and I think there were 2 or 3 occasions where she slept more than 3 hours straight. I feel you! It'll get better! Or so I hope :)
Having two kids was the worst time for me:I was still totally inexperienced and I now had two kids waking me up.Two things that helped me a lot:- don't let a child fall asleep with anything they cannot have the whole night (speaking of >6-12 months). No music, no falling asleep in front of a screen, make sure they don't fall asleep while drinking their last meal for the day. By all means: tell stories, sing, and make sure they get milk before they fall asleep though. The re
Has no one mentioned parenthood forcing sleep deprivation for 1-3+ years?
Why not let the child sleep in your bed?
The "cry it out" / Ferber method taught our kids how to fall asleep on their own and saved our sanity. It used to take hours to get a baby settled and one of us had to be there the whole time. By letting them cry for a bit (occasionally showing up to reassure that we're still there), it took like a few days for them to go to sleep on their own. It was an amazing change, and one I wish I had put in place much sooner.The idea (from what I remember, it's been years), is
This whole thread is chaos, but I just wanted to share my experience in case its useful for anybody. Once our kids were out of the bassinet and into a larger cot, rolling and crawling around a lot, it was really clear they just wanted to be with us, and in the end we just found it best for everybody if they just slept between us or even lying on my chest.
Kids are 1 and 3. The 1 yo doesn't sleep through the night. No family nearby. I really needed this thread.